ABSTRACT
WHEN Bernard Bosanquet died in February 1923 at the age of seventy-five he was described in The Times obituary notice as having been the central figure in British philosophy for a whole generation. Though not the originator of the particular view of the nature of ultimate reality and of man's relation to it with which he was identified, he may be said to have been for the last twentyfive years of his life its most valiant and chivalrous defender, carrying its standard into every field and bearing with unfailing equanimity the blows he encountered there. The external facts of his life have been recorded with such delicate completeness in his wife's "Short Account" and will be so often referred to in the letters which follow that the barest statement of them will here be sufficient.
